The General Authority of Civil Aviation and Meteorology launched a call to the United Nations, international and humanitarian human rights organizations and the Human Rights Council to move quickly to lift the ban on Sanaa International Airport to save the lives of thousands of sick and disabled people.

The Spokesman for the General Authority for Civil Aviation and Meteorology, Dr. Mazen Ahmed Ghanem, reiterated the call by the United Nations and human rights organizations to act quickly to stop illegal and inhumane practices by closing Sana’a airport in front of civilian flights, which caused a humanitarian disaster and turned Yemen into a large prison.

Dr. Mazen said in a statement to the Saba news agency that the statistics of the Ministry of Health indicate the death of approximately 13,395 patients since the beginning of the closure of Sanaa International Airport with an average of 37 deaths per day due to inability to travel or to obtain medicines and medical solutions transported by air.

He pointed out that 95 thousand patients waiting for them fate unknown because of the continued closure of the airport in Sanaa, in addition to students studying abroad or wishing to return home, especially the new academic year at the door.

He pointed out that about 50 thousand citizens have become unable to afford the cost of living abroad pointing to what the countries of the alliance of aggression to restrict and cancel many flights to and from airports, Aden and Saiyun, which causes the aggravation of the humanitarian situation.

The official spokesman of the General Authority for Civil Aviation called on the United Nations and international human rights organizations to shoulder their responsibilities and to open the Sanaa International Airport for purely humanitarian reasons.